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A study by Lopes and colleagues, titled “Population structure and divergence time among East Greenland and West Greenland/Eastern Canadian Arctic narwhals, Monodon monoceros”, was published in [...]

This week, we are having a highly important event, the 32nd meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee. In this annual event, researchers from NAMMCO member countries (The Faroe Islands, [...]

We are excited to announce the 8th Marine Mammal Student Symposium co-organised by the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, Norwegian Centre for Law of the Sea, and Department of Arctic and [...]

A study by Mikkelsen and colleagues, titled “Spatial overlap among harbour, ringed and bearded seals in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, during the post-moulting foraging period”, was published in the [...]

The Report of the NAMMCO Working Group on Pilot Whales is now available! The Working Group, chaired by Philip Hammond, met in November 2025 to conduct a stock assessment of long-finned pilot [...]

A new study by De Clerck and colleagues, titled “Trans-Atlantic movements of Atlantic white-sided dolphins, Leucopleurus acutus”, was published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science in [...]

Ending the year on a positive note, the latest publication in Volume 14 of NAMMCO Scientific Publications estimates low by-catch rates for minke whales in some fishing gears around Norway. The [...]

A new study by Sigurðsson and colleagues, titled “Spatiotemporal co-occurrence of whales and capelin on the east Greenland shelf during autumn”, was published in the journal Marine Biology in [...]

A study by Freitas and colleagues, titled “Impact of baleen whales on ocean primary production across space and time”, was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [...]

NAMMCO has released the report from the Committee on Hunting Methods meeting held online on 11 November 2025 and chaired by Ulla S. Wang (Faroe Islands). Norwegian seal hunter Bjørne Kvernmo [...]